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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
series {sic). The bars are edged black and obscurely vermiculated. All 
underparts from bill vinous rusty^ with a group of white black-margined 
patches on throaty and another across bottom of breast, below which the 
colour is paler and broken with rusty and dusky irregular bars; this 
extends to lower tail-coverts. Lower back and upper tail-coverts as back. 
A pale tawny supercilium. Lining of wings whitish. Length 9 inches^ 
wing tail 4f, of which beyond body 2^, billf, tarsus -f-Q, middle toef.^^ 
Lord Tweeddale^s comment on this is : — This description refers to the 
rufous phase_, when the upper plumage is traversed and vermiculated by 
narrow brown lines, while otherwise the bird exhibits the adult markings.''^ 
The following is a brief description of the bird shot by Capt. Wardlaw 
Ramsay in Karennee on the 2nd of April : — 
General colour pale rufous ; the upper plumage variegated with black ; 
the quills blackish, with rufous bars on the outer webs only ; ^the scapulars 
and some of the upper wing-coverts blotched with white ; the tail irregu- 
larly banded and vermiculated with black and two shades of rufous ; chin 
and throat rufous marked with black ; remainder of lower plumage a 
mixture of black and rufous boldly blotched with white. Tail 5*4 inches, 
wing 5'1, tarsus '7, bill from gape 1'2, width of gape about 1. Sex male. 
Iris marbled buff ; bill light madder ; legs light madder tinged with 
violet. 
This bird is very similar to the type of B. hodgsoni in the British 
Museum, of which the following is a description : — 
Adult. Crown and nape black barred with pale rufous ; upper plumage 
a mixture of black and rufous ; the feathers of the upper back each with 
a white bar, those of the lower back each with a white spot j the scapulars 
blotched with white ; quills brown, with rufous bars on the outer webs 
of the primaries and on both webs of the secondaries ; tail barred and 
vermiculated with black and two shades of rufous ; lower plumage chiefly 
white, sparingly barred with rufous, the pectoral feathers long and ample. 
Nestling. Rufous barred with brown, and with some white blotches on 
the scapulars. 
Tail of the adult 5'5 inches, wing 5*3, tarsus '65, bill from gape 1*15. 
The specimen shot by Capt. Bingham in Tenasserim in February is said 
by Mr. Hume to agree very closely with Col. TickelFs description. The 
length was 8'5 inches, tail 4'8, wing 4*7, bill from gape 1-14, width of bill 
at gape I '27. 
I have no doubt myself that all the above specimens belong to one 
species. 
Little is known of the habits and distribution of this species. In addi- 
tion to the localities quoted above, it has been met with in Sikhim and at 
Malacca, and it probably occurs in every portion of the intervening 
country. 
